by Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell | Aug 26, 2017 | Film and DVD Review
After years of absence from the home viewing scene another film from Jacques Becker receives a welcome release. This one is as beautifully shot and constructed, and indeed as strikingly modern, as the other recent releases, but is distinctly different in its approach.... »
by Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell | Aug 24, 2017 | Film and DVD Review
A film about criminals where the audience never witnesses the crime is a succinct and perfectly constructed tale of gang loyalty. Max (Jean Gabin) and Henri Ducros, known to all as Riton (René Dary), meet often at the cafe of Madame Bouche (Denise Clair) where they... »
by Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell | Aug 22, 2017 | Film and DVD Review
The highly engaging and surprisingly visceral Casque d’Or is a romance set amidst the subterfuge and criminality of professional gangs and prostitutes in the hard drinking, hard dancing, hard fighting location of early twentieth century Paris. Georges, now named... »
by Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell | Aug 21, 2017 | Film and DVD Review
Following a recent season of his films at the BFI, Studiocanal has released a number of Jacques Becker films on DVD and Blu-ray. Becker was a protege of the great Jean Renoir and assistant director on many of his most renowned films including here, most appropriately,... »
by Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell | Aug 4, 2017 | Film and DVD Review
Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden is already one of the most successful subtitled films to be released in the UK and is on track to become the highest grossing foreign language film of the last five years. It’s a dramatic thriller filled complete with subterfuge... »
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